I hesitate to comment at all, and I really don't like cross-posting, 
but it seems that this thread is in both places....

As an outsider who's been reading these messages with interest for 
the last few months, it's very confusing to have two things called 
pax -- one an archiver, and one a security package.

Best regards,
--Terry

At 04:17 PM 11/30/2006 +0200, Elad Efrat wrote:
>YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
>
> > i don't think it's my responsibility to find a better way.
>
>nobody says it is. :)
>
> > i'm just wondering if these features are worth to eat these bits.
>
>that is an issue we will deal with once we run out of bits and there
>is a need for them.
>
>btw, we could always add a new elf phdr type, say PT_PAX (instead of
>using PT_NOTE as we do now). then we can just make its p_flags act
>differently. how's that?
>
>-e.
>
>--
>Elad Efrat